Pith Number

pith:WB5UFF6Y

pith:2009:WB5UFF6YRPIY3ZLMSLNFLKW5AQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Key Generation: Foundations and a New Quantum Approach

Horace P. Yuen

arxiv:0906.5241 v1 · 2009-06-29 · quant-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WB5UFF6YRPIY3ZLMSLNFLKW5AQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:59:11.332803Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b07b4297d88bd18de56c92da55aadd04371fe81104dd72b10dc66167f0f84e5b

Aliases

arxiv: 0906.5241 · arxiv_version: 0906.5241v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0906.5241 · pith_short_12: WB5UFF6YRPIY · pith_short_16: WB5UFF6YRPIY3ZLM · pith_short_8: WB5UFF6Y

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WB5UFF6YRPIY3ZLMSLNFLKW5AQ \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: b07b4297d88bd18de56c92da55aadd04371fe81104dd72b10dc66167f0f84e5b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e72e91460b3e14b69f0425cb648d3bf68ebdfcf1af3b4966925026176f9ac878",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2009-06-29T11:33:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c06dc9989480b00876c4445f9c6f93e8fbe57b4abc95c19ec1ecd6f56dd8d045"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0906.5241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}